About A. E. Housman
1859 - 1936/EnglishAlfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English classical scholar and poet, best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocati
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Here Dead We Lie
Here dead we lieBecause we did not choose
Diffugere Nives (Horace, Odes 4.7)
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shawsAnd grasses in the mead renew their birth,
The Grizzly Bear
The Grizzly Bear is huge and wildIt has devoured the little child.
It Is No Gift I Tender
It is no gift I tender,A loan is all I can;
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
About A. E. Housman
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Who is A. E. Housman?
1859 - 1936/EnglishAlfred Edward Housman, usually known as A. E.
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Poems & Stories by A. E. Housman
Here Dead We Lie
Here dead we lieBecause we did not choose
Diffugere Nives (Horace, Odes 4.7)
The snows are fled away, leaves on the shawsAnd grasses in the mead renew their birth,
The Grizzly Bear
The Grizzly Bear is huge and wildIt has devoured the little child.
It Is No Gift I Tender
It is no gift I tender,A loan is all I can;
The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
Could Man Be Drunk Forever
Could man be drunk for everWith liquor, love, or fights,
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now
Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough,
To An Athlete Dying Young
The time you won your town the raceWe chaired you through the market-place;
Look Not In My Eyes, For Fear
Look not in my eyes, for fearThey mirror true the sight I see,
The Carpenter's Son
"Here the hangman stops his cart:Now the best of friends must part.
The Lent Lily
'Tis spring; come out to rambleThe hilly brakes around,
The Isle Of Portland
The star-filled seas are smooth tonightFrom France to England strown;
Selected Quotes by A. E. Housman (चुनिंदा उद्धरण)
It is no gift I tender,A loan is all I can;
The Grizzly Bear is huge and wildIt has devoured the little child.
The chestnut casts his flambeaux, and the flowersStream from the hawthorn on the wind away,
Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough,
'Tis spring; come out to rambleThe hilly brakes around,
Here dead we lieBecause we did not choose
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